We study Hausdorff continua in which every set of certain cardinality contains a subset which disconnects the space. We show that such continua are rim-finite. We give characterizations of this class among metric continua. As an application of our methods, we show that continua in which each countably infinite set disconnects are generalized graphs. This extends a result of Nadler for metric continua.

A new oscillation criterion is given for the delay differential equation ${x}'\,(t)\,+\,p(t)x\,(t\,-\,\text{ }\!\!\tau\!\!\text{ (t)})\,=\,0$, where $p,\,\text{ }\!\!\tau\!\!\text{ }\,\in \,\text{C}\,\text{( }\!\![\!\!\text{ 0,}\,\infty ),\,\text{ }\!\![\!\!\text{ 0,}\,\infty )\text{)}$ and the function $T$ defined by $T(t)\,=\,t-\,\text{ }\!\!\tau\!\!\text{ }\,\text{(t),}\,\text{t}\ge \,\text{0}$ is increasing and such that ${{\lim }_{t\to \infty }}\,T(t)\,=\,\infty $. This criterion concerns the case where $\lim \,{{\inf }_{t\to \infty }}\int _{T(t)}^{t}p(s)ds\le \frac{1}{e}$.

The splitting pattern of a quadratic form $q$ over a field $k$ consists of all distinct Witt indices that occur for $q$ over extension fields of $k$. In small dimensions, the complete list of splitting patterns of quadratic forms is known. We show that all splitting patterns of quadratic forms of dimension at most nine can be realized by trace forms.

We present a short proof for a classical result on separating singularities of holomorphic functions. The proof is based on the open mapping theorem and the fusion lemma of Roth, which is a basic tool in complex approximation theory. The same method yields similar separation results for other classes of functions.

Let $H$ be a faithfully projective Hopf algebra over a commutative ring $k$. In [8, 9] we defined the Brauer group $\text{BQ}(k,H)$ of $H$ and an homomorphism $\pi $ from Hopf automorphism group $\text{Au}{{\text{t}}_{\text{Hopf}}}(H)$ to $\text{BQ}(k,H)$. In this paper, we show that the morphism $\pi $ can be embedded into an exact sequence.

For two functions $f$ and $g$, define $g\ll f$ to mean that $g$ satisfies every algebraic differential equation over the constants satisfied by $f$. The order $\ll $ was introduced in one of a set of problems on algebraic differential equations given by the late Lee Rubel. Here we characterise the set of $g$ such that $g\ll f$, when $f$ is a given Liouvillian function.

We study convolution properties ofmeasures on the curves $({{t}^{{{a}_{1}}}},{{t}^{{{a}_{2}}}},{{t}^{{{a}_{3}}}})$ in ${{\mathbb{R}}^{3}}$.

We construct a ring $R$ which is a sum of two subrings $A$ and $B$ such that the Levitzki radical of $R$ does not contain any of the hyperannihilators of $A$ and $B$. This answers an open question asked by Kegel in 1964.

In this article, making use of the second author’s criterion for exponentiality of a connected solvable Lie group, we give a rather simple necessary and sufficient condition for the semidirect product of a torus acting on certain connected solvable Lie groups to be exponential.

Let $R$ be a ring with 1 and $P(R)$ the periodic radical of $R$. We obtain necessary and sufficient conditions for $P(\text{RG})=0$ when $\text{FG}$ is the group ring of an $\text{FC}$ group $G$ and $R$ is commutative. We also obtain a complete description of $P\left( I(X,R) \right)$ when $I(X,R)$ is the incidence algebra of a locally finite partially ordered set $X$ and $R$ is commutative.

The main result shows that if $R$ is a semiprime ring satisfying a polynomial identity, and if $Z(R)$ is the center of $R$, then card $R\,\le \,{{2}^{\text{card}\,Z\text{(}R\text{)}}}$. Examples show that this bound can be achieved, and that the inequality fails to hold for rings which are not semiprime.

Various authors have studied when a Banach space can be renormed so that every weakly compact convex, or less restrictively every compact convex set is an intersection of balls. We first observe that each Banach space can be renormed so that every weakly compact convex set is an intersection of balls, and then we introduce and study properties that are slightly stronger than the preceding two properties respectively.

We study metaplectic coverings of the adelized group of a split connected reductive group $G$ over a number field $F$. Assume its derived group ${G}'$ is a simply connected simple Chevalley group. The purpose is to provide some naturally defined sections for the coverings with good properties which might be helpful when we carry some explicit calculations in the theory of automorphic forms on metaplectic groups. Specifically, we

1. 1. construct metaplectic coverings of $G(\mathbb{A})$ from those of ${G}'\,(\mathbb{A})$;

2. 2. for any non-archimedean place $v$, show the section for a covering of $G\,({{F}_{v}})$ constructed from a Steinberg section is an isomorphism, both algebraically and topologically in an open subgroup of $G\,({{F}_{v}})$;

3. 3. define a global section which is a product of local sections on a maximal torus, a unipotent subgroup and a set of representatives for the Weyl group.

We discuss the $q$-exponential functions ${{e}_{q}},\,{{E}_{q}}$ for $q$ on the unit circle, especially their continuity in $q$, and analogues of the limit relation ${{\lim }_{q\to 1}}\,{{e}_{q}}\,((1-q)z)\,=\,{{e}^{z}}.$

The growth series of compact hyperbolic Coxeter groups with 4 and 5 generators are explicitly calculated. The assertions of J. Cannon and Ph. Wagreich for the 4-generated groups, that the poles of the growth series lie on the unit circle, with the exception of a single real reciprocal pair of poles, are verified. We also verify that for the 5-generated groups, this phenomenon fails.

We show that normal and stable normal invariants of polarized homotopy equivalences of lens spaces $M=\,L({{2}^{m}};\,{{r}_{1}},...,\,{{r}_{n}})$ and $N\,=\,L({{2}^{m}};\,{{s}_{1}},...,{{s}_{n}})$ are determined by certain $\ell $-polynomials evaluated on the elementary symmetric functions ${{\sigma }_{i}}\,(r_{1}^{2},...,r_{n}^{2})$ and ${{\sigma }_{i}}(s_{1}^{2},...,s_{n}^{2})$. Each polynomial ${{\ell }_{k}}$ appears as the homogeneous part of degree $k$ in the Hirzebruch multiplicative $L$-sequence. When $n=8$, the elementary symmetric functions alone determine the relevant normal invariants.

It is known that the Toeplitz algebra associated with any flow which is both minimal and uniquely ergodic always has a trivial ${{K}_{1}}$-group. We show in this note that if the unique ergodicity is dropped, then such ${{K}_{1}}$-group can be non-trivial. Therefore, in the general setting of minimal flows, even the $K$-theoretical index is not sufficient for the classification of Toeplitz operators which are invertible modulo the commutator ideal.

We investigate the problem of determining when $\text{IA}({{F}_{n}}({{\mathbf{A}}_{m}}\mathbf{A}))$ is finitely generated for all $n$ and $m$, with $n\ge 2$ and $m\ne 1$. If $m$ is a nonsquare free integer then $\text{IA}({{F}_{n}}({{\mathbf{A}}_{m}}\mathbf{A}))$ is not finitely generated for all $n$ and if $m$ square free integer then $\text{IA}({{F}_{n}}({{\mathbf{A}}_{m}}\mathbf{A}))$ is finitely generated for all $n$, with $n\ne 3$, and $\text{IA}({{F}_{3}}({{\mathbf{A}}_{m}}\mathbf{A}))$ is not finitely generated. In case $m$ is square free, Bachmuth and Mochizuki claimed in ([7], Problem 4) that $\text{TR}({{\mathbf{A}}_{m}}\mathbf{A})$ is 1 or 4. We correct their assertion by proving that $\text{TR}({{\mathbf{A}}_{m}}\mathbf{A})=\infty$.

We construct Lipschitz functions such that for all $s>0$ they are $s$-Hölder, and so proximally, subdifferentiable only on dyadic rationals and nowhere else. As applications we construct Lipschitz functions with prescribed Hölder and approximate subderivatives.

It is known that the product ${{\omega }_{1}}\times X$ of ${{\omega }_{1}}$ with an ${{M}_{1}}$-space may be non-normal. In this paper we prove that the product $\kappa \times X$ of an uncountable regular cardinal κ with a paracompact semi-stratifiable space is normal iff it is countably paracompact. We also give a sufficient condition under which the product of a normal space with a paracompact space is normal, from which many theorems involving such a product with a countably compact factor can be derived.